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Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020

Report: Soy, cattle industries trail palm oil, timber on deforestation risk

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Nov 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Peter Speetjens 26 Oct 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Oct 2020

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

Sue Branford 21 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

In a drier Amazon, small farmers and researchers work together to reduce fire damage

Letícia Klein, Thiago Medaglia 8 Oct 2020

The murky process of licensing Amazonian meat plants

Flávia Milhorance / Diálogo Chino 8 Oct 2020

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

Taufik Wijaya 7 Oct 2020

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 6 Oct 2020

Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Taran Volckhausen 2 Oct 2020

Could disruptions in meat supply relieve pressure on the Amazon? (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 30 Sep 2020

Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation and fire monitoring to military

Jenny Gonzales 29 Sep 2020

BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 24 Sep 2020

Less than half of world’s humid tropical forests have high ecological integrity: Study

Claire Asher 22 Sep 2020

Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

Taufik Wijaya 21 Sep 2020
Forest cleared for palm oil production in Indonesia. Rhett C. Butler for Mongabay.

BlackRock, other asset managers enabling deforestation, says Friends of the Earth

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2020

Game changer: NASA data tool could revolutionize Amazon fire analysis

Shanna Hanbury 15 Sep 2020

500 years of species loss: Humans drive defaunation across Neotropics

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Sep 2020
Image by ilustrativa/John Lambeth/Pexels

For European chemical giants, Brazil is an open market for toxic pesticides banned at home

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 10 Sep 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020

Just half of major timber and pulp suppliers committed to zero deforestation: Report

Claire Asher 2 Sep 2020
Hots spots in areas with Prodes warnings indicating deforestation between 2017 and 2019. Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Friday night follies: Brazil cuts deforestation funding, then restores it

Jenny Gonzales 1 Sep 2020

Brazil green recovery plan could boost economy, add jobs, cut emissions: Report

Shanna Hanbury 27 Aug 2020
Hotspot directly in the forest, next to a freshly deforested area in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso state. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Bleak milestone: 500 major fires detected in Brazilian Amazon this year

Liz Kimbrough 26 Aug 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

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